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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Sauce. Goose. Gander. Nahan.

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Mike Nahan, masquerading as the Member for Riverton but trying to carry all the weight of being a Cabinet Minister, several times publicly called for a different outcome for local government from that recommended by the Local Government Advisory Board or accepted by his Ministerial colleague, Tony Simpson (particularly to get all of his constituency into the City of Melville).

So much for Cabinet solidarity.

So, he's quite happy to try to use public opinion to influence decisions when it suits him, but when someone (he assumes it to be a public servant, but apparently without any evidence) attempts to do the same for decisions he has or is about to make it suddenly becomes 'political games' and shouldn't happen.

Sauce for the goose. Sauce for the gander, Ned - oops! almost managed a full post without using his alter ego.

No doubt he would prefer simply to make decisions, announce them and have the hoi poloi roll over and accept them.

Welcome to the 21st Century, Mr Nahan - the century of open and accountable government - whether government likes it or not. Keeping secrets doesn't work any more.
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  1. AnonymousMarch 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM

    Warped like the rest of them. This is just another attempt to direct attention away from their shambolic miserable and failed attempt on council amalgamation.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 4, 2015 at 3:57 PM

    Dr Nahan has regularly taken a hammering in the letters to the editors of the Canning Times and Canning Examiner. The last two weeks have been particularly brutal for the Minister. The letters next week should also be interesting because of the article “Take democracy seriously: Nahan” on page 3 of this week’s Canning Examiner.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 8, 2015 at 12:34 PM

      Yes he gets hammered alright but that’s what happens when you run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

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